“A different language is a different vision of life.” Federico Fellini, Italian film director. This quote succinctly expresses why everyone should learn another language. When you learn another ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

Yale’s commitment to language learning is reflected in the distributional requirements — students must gain proficiency in a second language to graduate. Language significantly shapes our thought ...

It can come as a surprise to many people in the U.K. and U.S. that speaking more than one language is the norm rather than the exception. In prehistoric times, most people belonged to small linguistic ...

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriel Guillén, Middlebury College and Thor Sawin, Middlebury College (THE ...